Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-11

SoUTH1NGToN, AuB. 1V-Ine OC. faIrlcKs society and Celtic club will give Q joint ex- cursion to Savin Rock Saturday, August 20.
 F. A. Sutlif, ST., and George l.. Messenger represented Unity council No. Il, GUAM, at the State convention at New Britain Tues day. week Saturday.
 General State News.
 DIED IN BED.
 Mrs. Milo Bartholomew was found recently dead in bed. She went to her room after dinner for rest and was found dead at five o'clock.
 FIRE AT wEsTPoRT.
 Lawrence Burns carriage shop at Westport was destroyed by fire, with contents, early Tuesday morning. LOSS about $2, 900; par tially insured.
 CHANGERS PICNIC TO-DAY.
 The Ellington, Holland, Vernon, Bolton and Stafford granges are to have big picnic at Snipsic grove to day. The Farmers club of East Windsor were there on Monday. RocKvILLITEs COMING HERE.
 The Rockville Hibernians will attend the State parade at New Haven August Is and have engaged the American band to go with them. A. J. Cavsnaugh, of Rockville, IS the county delegate.
 WRESTLING MATCH POSTPONED. The wrestling match between NJ. T. Fele- ter and J. H. Kelly for purse of $25O, an nounced to take place Tuesday at Charter Oak park has been postponed as Feleter was not in condition.
 ANOTHER CALL TO DIR. LINDSAY. Rev. Dr. Lindsay, of Washington, not as yet having stated his intentions about ac cepting the call to become rector of Christ church, Hartford, St. Johns church, Bridge. i. k>I she1 DIED IN DANBURY. Thomas B. Fanton, a Danbury merchant, died on Monday, aged 50. He was formerly town in the legislature in 1865. He was 6 prominent member of the Methodist church. DIED IN PUTNAM.
 Albert Kenyon, of Woodstock Valley, was buried Tuesday His death was due te nervous prestration and he had reached the age of forty-seven years. He was well known in Putnam, and a number of Putnam people accompanied his remains to their last resting place.
 wATERBURY's NEW BANK.
 The new Fourth National bank at Water, bury opened for business on Monday, with the following officers: President, B. T. Turner; cashier, B. G. Bryan; directors, D.S' Plume, J. R. Smith, B. T. Turner, N. D, drduulS, O6OTS0 4oIEJJ D. VI. LAy0n tAt1N Edmund Day. The bookkeeper is Robert F. Griggs, son of the late Henry c. Griggs.
 DELIGHTED GosHENITEs.
 Monday evening Mr. Keizd Keoyand, ( Japanese student at New Haven, delighted large audience by an illustrated lecture al the Congregational church.. MT. Keoyand gave his audience graphic view of theMika, dos empire, with gtereopticon views ot places, buildings, scenery, manners and GUS toms.-Hartford Courant.
 WHAT THE PIGEONS DID.
 MT. Fred Stetson, formerly of Norwich, on his return to New Haven Monday morning carried some of MT. Poole's carrier pigeons with him that were four months old, and re- leased them at 1925 o'clock. The birds reached home at ten minutes past o'clock making that distance in two hours and forty five minutes.-Norwich Bulletin.
 FIELD MEETING OF THE BOARD OF AGRICUL TURF.
 On Tuesday next the State board of agri culture is to have field meeting at the farm of Hale Brothers in Glastonbury. The Hales have farm that has become noted for itf high state of cultivation and the quality ot the fruit it sends to the Hartford market, and the object of this meeting is largely to give { number of horticulturists an opportunity te see the methods employed and their result GAO0o and the raspberries, which yield two cropl each season, can be seen to advantage now Arrangements are being made for the trans portation of the board of agriculture and in vited guests.
 SHORT OF FOOD AT NIANTIC. A New London paper is authority for tht statement that the Mantle hotels were no able to get meat from the village, from New London or from New Haven last week. Int yachts bought up everything and Hartford was called upon for supplies. These sup plies will be regular in some cases during tho season, so that Hartford has gained some steady trade by the disappointment. MT Stickney, of Hartford, is catering for thu thirty employees of the quartermastsr's de- pertinent engaged in preparations for 'train- ing" week at Camp Lounsbury. Some of hi: employees deserted him Saturday, having se cured more lucrative and congenial employ ment as full-dress walters at the Morton House.-Hartford Courant. THE LATE CoLoRED Ex-coNGREssMAN. Joseph H. Rainey, the colored ex-congress man who died last week, used to spend his summers at Windsor, and was leading Con- gregationalist and an earnest advocate o1 temperance. He went to Washington last year to enter business, selling his household goods and his small farm, which is incum. bersd and will probably be sold His wife
 
 society, and when she left, it died. She Is g remarkably well informed woman and with MT. Rainey would answer more conundrums and enigmas than all the white members combined. They moved in the best society, and their color was never thought of. Their children, three of them, are just as brilliant as their parents, the young boys can play diff fcult selections in public on the piano. In short, writes Windsor correspondent, no better citizens could grace town than J. H. Rainey and his estima5le family. He very rarely alluded to his official life, and it never seemed to add an inch to his height. Going as he did through all the corruption of the South, and being leading colored Repub- lican without a taint on his honor, speaks volumes for the man.-Springfeld Repub- lican.
 Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, dis gusting everybody, but use Dr. Sage'a Catarrh Remedy.